SoCal on Nov. 27, 2008 at 11:51 PM
Dear Santa,
All I want is my kids to have one holiday where there is no screaming, fighting, or hitting. This is the time of the year that's the worse and seems that this is also the time of the year that my soon to be ex-DH was the most the violent. Christmas' and Thanksgivings usually end with me crying, locked in the bedroom with my twins. I have such happy Christmas and Thanksgiving memories growing up and it greatly saddens me that my kids, both almost 3, have never had a somewhat happy holiday. Today (Thanksgiving), DH got arrested for the third time this year because he wanted to take the kids to see his mom and I was in disagreement because I had plans to take them somewhere. Long story short, my twins got to see their daddy being arrested again and I am now trying to run away from him again. This time I made a PROMISE that this would be the LAST TIME.
This has been a hard year for ALL of us in every way possible and for my kids I would just like Santa to give them one happy holiday. All I really want for myself is to know that everything's going to be OK and that we're going to find a way to make it all work.
"The saddest thing in the world is not when one dies, but when one chooses to live a life merely to exist."
